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openPoor grammar
After getting a grammar notifier, Wolfof Blades keeps using faulty English.
- Here, they write "discussing about them" when it should be "discussing them".
- Here, they use the word "subsiquently", and use "whom" when "who" is appropriate.
- Here, they use "it's" instead of "its", and use "whom" when "who" is appropriate (and make additional errors).
openAudience reaction/interpretation on objective tropes
Redirected from the "Is this an example" thread:
Should we add a rule to How to Write an Example clarifying that what the audience thinks or speculates does not make for an objective trope's content? Lately, a fair amount of tropers have been cropping up using phrases like "Rather than being what some fans were expecting" and "[x] is frequently depicted as this by the fanbase" as part of a non-YMMV entry.
openAnother The Fic May Be Yours But The Trope Page Is Ours violation
In 2017, a page for The Seven Sinisters was created by PoundToundHound, the work's creator. After being untouched for almost four years, they not only cutlisted it with the reason being "I'm the creator and just want it removed", they removed all content from the page and replaced it with "Jesus christ".
Edited by Shadow8411resolved Famous Last Words cut list
A couple of Famous Last Words were cutlisted with the reason "(Famous) Last Words has been turned into an index". However it was agreed to keep the subpages since it's also a Just for Fun page. I sent the poster a PM about it, but I posted here as well just to be safe.
openHow does one create a translated subpage?
I wanted to translate a few trope pages and I noticed that some already translated pages have the translation as a subpage. However, I can't find any option for the creation of translated subpages when I click on "create new" on a main page, and if I create a page under the It/ namespace it will not appear as a subpage. What should I do?
Thanks in advance for your answer.
openQuestionable Entry
On Breast Expansion, in the Web Originals tab, there's an entire section for the Breast Expansion Archive, which is... almost certainly a fetish website. I'm a bit unsure of whether or not to remove the entry because some of the stories do seem to be more than just the fetish (one of them even has its own page), but on the other hand, it feels a bit weird to have a huge entry be solely from a fetish site with only one story having its own page. What do you guys think?
Edit: The stories themselves are listed as separate sub-entries, so it appears to be listing the stories as the actual entries, not the site itself.
Edited by idonomopenFridge pages
On Fridge pages, I sometimes notice users treating them like Headscratchers 2.0 and putting in questions in their bullet points, even if they're to answer them in the following sentence. Is this allowed? I'd assume that Fridge should refrain from asking questions within the entries and only call attention to things about the work that make sense in context which the series itself never lampshades.
openThis Wiki as audience reaction proof?
I will be adding this to TooBleakStoppedCaring.Fan Works per Cleanup.
- The Dear Sweetie Belle Continuity shifting to foreshadowing/setting up an apocalyptic conflict has put off many who enjoyed the series character-driven Slice of Life, especially since the characters it made them so attached to are now at high risk of getting unhappy endings. Not helping is said conflict is being caused in part by the controversial actions of the series more controversial characters while likable characters are denied agency, most notoriously Pinkie Pie dying of unspecified causes prior. The first story fully set in this darker direction, The Changelings Have a King, had a high body count and higher ratio of dislikes to likes than any other work in the seres. While later works were much better received, their having only one-fifth the likes shows a large majority, all save the most dedicated fans, stopped caring about the series to the point its cancelation went largely without notice.
I was thinking of adding that, despite having a tropes page, it took nearly a year for this wiki to acknowledge its cancelation as more evidence its fans/readers have stopped caring. Would that be OK to add if it is only secondary evidence to the primary out of wiki proof? Or should such be avoided if unnecessary (there's other proof enough) and/or overly myopic/self-referential? (I asked the cleanup but they seemed mixed on it.)
openUploading photos to Creator pages or works
I've been trying to upload photos to newly-created works or pages such as Jordan Vogt-Roberts and yet it won't show up. How exactly do I properly upload pictures to TV Tropes?
openIs that necessary to describe the scene? Live Action TV
I was on a character page of American Horror Story: Roanoke where I found possibly a word cruft. Without spoiling it, basically both characters is having sex. And someone writes as "Character A fucks Character B". I find it unnecessary and I wanted to rewrote as "Character A have sex with Character B". Was it necessary and may I rewrite it? And no, I am not trying to Bowdlerise the example.
Edited by BubblepigopenGrammar Fix on Complete Monster
I know that changes to a Complete Monster entry have to be approved by the thread, but does that include things like grammar fixes? I am specifically referring to this entry from The Final Girl Support Group that ends with what's either a sentence fragment or really awkwardly phrased and can easily be fixed by changing one word ("Having" to "He").
- Complete Monster: Skye Elliott, son of Dr. Carol Elliott, is a misogynist who arranges the death of the first Final Girl Adrienne to help set up the others. Having groomed and corrupted the teenager Stephanie and disguising her as a "Final Girl" to win the trust of heroine Lynette all so he can gain access to the camp Adrienne founded and slaughter everyone there out of pure spite for his mother by murdering the victims she had helped.
openUnilateral remerging of split off subpages.
A while back, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer was split off into it's own page, seperate from Fantastic Four (2005). As a result, some of the subpages, such as the YMMV and Trivia pages, were split off as well so they wouldn't share the same space as it's predecessor.
However, I noticed that all the subpages for both films were merged and redirected back under Fantastic Four Duology, even though there was no reason to do so. These edits seem to have been done by GateStarX, who's been reported in ATT before for making unilateral changes without getting proper feedback first.
Was there a discussion to merge these subpages together? Is it even necessary? Is there a way to revert it?
Edited by chasemaddiganopenLuckbun
Hey, mods. Can we get a check on Luckbun? They're editing the exact same page created by H-Poo Missy, who was the last sock of Mr_Anyways, with the same terrible grammar and formatting mistakes. (Courtesy link to that thread)
This cannot be a coincidence.
Edited by WarJay77openVanished ATT thread?
There was a query discussing some contentious entries on Characters.Star Wars Clone Force 99, even got referenced in the page history [1] but now its nowhere to be found? What happened?
openPotential Edit Warring Film
While I'm not sure if they've got into edit wars on this particular page yet, whenever DragonMaster408 makes edits to pages like Black Widow (2021) the edit reasons that've been given are lengthy walls of text that are filled with typos and grammar issues that also often seem to fail to understand the narrative they're supposedly arguing for (which lead to unnecessary conflict with other tropers who also take issue with their edits).
They also tend to focus on tropes that attract a lot of activity such as Unintentionally Unsympathetic with what would be better served by an entry on the discussion page (especially since, as far as I've seen, a lot of people really do have the UU reaction to those characters in this movie; even if Dragonmaster 408 doesn't personally agree with the opinions of these viewers, it's still an opinion held by a large number of people, and thus unfair for them to dismiss those opinions so unilaterally like that).
It also sounds like this isn't the first time they've made a mess of things involving edits to Unintentionally Unsympathetic, and searching their name indicates that they have a tendency for getting involved in edit wars.
Edit:Fixed ATT Report link.
Edited by AlleyOopresolved Just confirming how uploading images works
I'm about to upload an image as part of a new works page and I'm not 100% sure how the procedure works as I'm fairly new. Do you just click 'upload image' from the edit page and it's as simple as that? Furthermore, can you just use a Google search result or does more care need to be taken to ensure copyright compliance?
Thanks, Azorius 24
openSaw Edit War
On the Saw II page, Inky 100 added a line about how a certain scene was pictured on the main NF page. I removed it, stating that examples that refer to content on other pages goes against How To Write An Example. A few days ago, they re-added it.
openIsThatAThreat formatting
Something's wrong with the main page for Is That a Threat?. Basically, the (\) thing that's used in multi-line quotes doesn't always work the way it should. Check it out and you'll see.
TheChessmaster.Anime And Manga page separates its examples in those that have chess motifs, and those that don't. However, I want to add a work that has three examples of The Chessmaster, and only one of them has chess motifs. Not to mention, all three are different types of Deconstruction of the same trope, so I think that putting them all together will be more beneficial.
What should I do?